[ADMIN] Querying the hostname of the server

2010-04-30 Thread Péter Kovács
Hi, I have a number of PostgreSQL servers which I often access through ssh tunnel with Pgadmin3. I would like to double check which one I have landed on (if the tunnel is really configured the way I want). Is there a way to query the hostname from the catalogs? Thanks Peter

Re: [ADMIN] Querying the hostname of the server

2010-04-30 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 03:33:13PM +0200, Péter Kovács wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of PostgreSQL servers which I often access through ssh > tunnel with Pgadmin3. I would like to double check which one I have landed > on (if the tunnel is really configured the way I want). Is there a way to >

Re: [ADMIN] Querying the hostname of the server

2010-04-30 Thread Kevin Grittner
"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote: > If you're talking unix/linux machines, then /etc/hostname _should_ > have the current hostname in it If not, check for /etc/HOSTNAME -- some distributions do that. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [ADMIN] Querying the hostname of the server

2010-04-30 Thread Péter Kovács
Thank you, Ross! inet_server_addr() returns the correct IP address in this case. I am not sure why... The tunnel goes through at least one port-forwarding node, but I am not sure this makes postgresql see the connection any less local. Thanks Peter On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ross J. Reedst

Re: [ADMIN] Querying the hostname of the server

2010-04-30 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Fri, 30/4/10, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a number of PostgreSQL servers which I often > access through ssh > > tunnel with Pgadmin3. I would like to double check > which one I have landed > > on (if the tunnel is really configured the way I > want). Is there a way to

Re: [ADMIN] Querying the hostname of the server

2010-04-30 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Yes, nice and simple. I just did this in C and it works ok! hostname.c === #include #include "postgres.h" #include "utils/elog.h" #include "utils/palloc.h" #include "storage/bufpage.h" #define MAX_HOST_SIZE 200 PG_MODULE_MAGIC; PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(host

Re: [ADMIN] Fresh build on OS X not working (memory)

2010-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Kistner writes: > On Apr 29, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> For comparison, I have these settings on my laptop: >> pro:~ tgl$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf >> kern.sysv.shmmax=33554432 >> kern.sysv.shmmin=1 >> kern.sysv.shmmni=32 >> kern.sysv.shmseg=8 >> kern.sysv.shmall=8192 >> >> and PG st

[ADMIN] dump diffs even w/o db changes

2010-04-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm doing regular (hourly) dumps and putting them into git (and automatically pushing it to several git servers). The problem is: the dumps are always differing (even if nothing happened in that db). diff --git a/DB-net79.sql b/DB-net79.sql index 89b682d..c8be6d6 100644

[ADMIN] Can I safely kill a VACUUM ANALYZE with pg_cancel_backend 8.3

2010-04-30 Thread Jason Culverhouse
HI, I have a vacuum process that has been running on a table for the past 20 days. The server is postgres 8.3 on ubuntu linux. Can I safely kill the vacuum with: select pg_cancel_backend(26433) Some stats The table sees ~5million and not more than ~10million updates month $ ps aux | gre

Re: [ADMIN] Can I safely kill a VACUUM ANALYZE with pg_cancel_backend 8.3

2010-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Jason Culverhouse writes: > I have a vacuum process that has been running on a table for the past 20 days. > The server is postgres 8.3 on ubuntu linux. > Can I safely kill the vacuum with: > select pg_cancel_backend(26433) Sure. 20 days is a long time. Is it actually running, or blocked

Re: [ADMIN] Can I safely kill a VACUUM ANALYZE with pg_cancel_backend 8.3

2010-04-30 Thread Kevin Grittner
Jason Culverhouse wrote: > The server is postgres 8.3 on ubuntu linux. There have been a number of bugs fixed in vacuuming, including autovacuum, since the original 8.3 release. I hope you mean 8.3.somethingrecent -- if not, you should get the latest fixes. > Can I safely kill the vacuum wi

Re: [ADMIN] dump diffs even w/o db changes

2010-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Enrico Weigelt writes: > I'm doing regular (hourly) dumps and putting them into git > (and automatically pushing it to several git servers). > The problem is: the dumps are always differing (even if nothing > happened in that db). > CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE pgdump_oid (dummy integer) WITH OIDS; >

Re: [ADMIN] Fresh build on OS X not working (memory)

2010-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > I have no idea why EDB recommend changing the maxproc settings, but > I doubt that's related to shared memory. I see that they have shmmax > equal to exactly 4096 times shmall, so that's good, but there must be > some other OSX peculiarity that this is tripping over. Maybe it's too > l

Re: [ADMIN] Fresh build on OS X not working (memory)

2010-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > ... OTOH I'd have expected you to have to reboot multiple > times while experimenting with the shm parameters, so I'm not entirely > convinced I've hit on the right explanation. Oh ... were you using sysctl -w rather than rebooting to adjust the shmmem parameters? I realized after expe

Re: [ADMIN] more 10K disks or less 15K disks

2010-04-30 Thread Greg Smith
Scott Whitney wrote: On the 10k vs 15k rpm disks, there's a _lot_ to be said about that. I don't want to start a flame war here, but 15k versus 10k rpm hard drives does NOT equivocate to a 50% increase in read/write times, to say the VERY least. Your characterization is correct were there o

Re: [ADMIN] more 10K disks or less 15K disks

2010-04-30 Thread Scott Whitney
A _very_ valid point which I omitted simply because it once again points to 24 spindles equating to a faster array than 12. The problem, as you so easily summarize, is the fact that once you put any decent RAID controller into this, you've essentially added a magic black box that does "better

[ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-04-30 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I had a very strange occurrence 2 days ago where autovacuum appears to have stopped running. I did not see any error messages in pg_log. The problem caused a file which is usually around 50Mb but which gets updated extensively to grow to 105GB, which in turn brought the server's performance down

Re: [ADMIN] Fresh build on OS X not working (memory)

2010-04-30 Thread Gavin Kistner
On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Does the theory of a pre-existing smaller shmem segment make sense from > your end? In particular, had you previously had another Postgres server > running on that machine, and perhaps killed it ungracefully? If this > theory is correct, the issue wa